Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

Revealed: Official data masking long waits for the sickest patients

2023-11-24T05:10:00+00:00

Several trusts are failing to admit their sickest emergency patients in a timely fashion, despite performing well in official waiting time statistics, HSJ can reveal.

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‘Excess deaths’ due to A&E delays rise by nearly a third in one year

2023-11-07T12:44:00+00:00

Long waits in A&E departments may have caused around 30,000 ‘excess deaths’ last year, according to new estimates.

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‘Chaotic’ maternity service was warned of same problems years earlier

2023-08-23T03:25:00+01:00

A trust given an “inadequate” rating for its “chaotic” maternity service last week had been criticised for many of the same failings only last year by another regulator, it has emerged.

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NHS not ministers should decide future ‘new hospitals’, says DHSC chief

2023-06-26T05:01:00+01:00

A permanent change in approach is needed for deciding which hospitals are built and  when, and should be led by the NHS not politicians, the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ boss has told HSJ.

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New CEO for £1.4bn acute trust

2023-03-22T12:42:00+00:00

The largest trust in the East of England has recruited a new chief executive with a record of leading struggling acute providers.

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Cost of new hospital now triple funding allocation says CEO

2023-02-24T12:15:00+00:00

The chief executive of a trust waiting for a new hospital said the cost of the project is now likely to be triple the allocation that was announced by the government.

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London Eye: Where’s the harm?

2023-02-15T13:20:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: Catastrophic failure, but not the trust you’d expect

2023-02-01T13:12:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: Surviving winter

2022-11-30T13:36:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: The nursing walkout isn't really about pay

2022-11-16T09:19:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Fears of delay to flagship ‘new hospitals’ after funding cut

2022-05-17T05:03:00+01:00

Several of the ‘40 new hospitals’ promised by government face further delay and disruption because the trusts are receiving less cash than needed for crucial planning work this year, HSJ can reveal.

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London Eye: Later, iller, less productive

2022-05-04T11:38:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Patients asked to travel 200 miles in push to cut elective waits

2022-04-08T05:30:00+01:00

Long waiting times at Devon’s acute hospitals have forced commissioners to offer patients treatment 200 miles away in London in a bid to reduce the elective backlog.

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Five ‘new hospital’ projects due to miss 2025 completion target

2022-01-11T05:57:00+00:00

Only one of the six ‘new hospitals’ prioritised for construction by the government more than two years ago is on track to be operating by the original target date of 2025, HSJ can reveal.

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London Eye: Five go chief exec-ing

2021-11-17T13:06:00+00:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.

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London Eye: 18 months in full PPE

2021-10-20T11:20:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.

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Trusts failing to report ‘concerning’ numbers of hospital-acquired covid cases

2021-10-15T12:01:00+01:00

Some acute trusts have failed to report large numbers of hospital-acquired covid infections as patient safety incidents, despite NHS England describing this as ‘fundamental’.

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

Due to the significant challenges posed by the first wave of Covid-19, CCGs in North-West London (NWL) designed and piloted a ‘virtual-ward’ to enable better patient care, enhance clinical capacity and improve access for patients presenting with moderate Covid symptoms. The pilot sought to safely monitor patients in the community ...

More than a dozen trust chairs receive two salaries as shared leadership spreads

2021-08-20T04:00:00+01:00

Sixteen people are now chairing more than one NHS trust, but there is significant variation in how much they are paid for their extra roles, an HSJ analysis has found.

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Two trusts appoint single CEO and form ‘hospital group’

2021-08-04T16:52:00+01:00

A pair of London trusts have appointed a single chief executive as they join forces to form a ‘hospital group’.